Dar es Salaam, April 28 -- ZANZIBAR: ZANZIBAR soil is suitable for production of almost all crops, the just concluded soil testing to guide cultivation of appropriate crops has concluded.

According to Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Livestock Minister Shamata Shaame Khamis, there is no crop that is unsuitable for growing in the spice islands.

“The soil testing drive has been a great success; there is no crop whose growth has been rejected in Zanzibar,” Minister Shamata told the Daily News in an interview here yesterday, noting however that many farmers are shifting to money-minting horticultural sub-sector.

He said cloves and coconuts remain Zanzibars major commercial crops but decried an increasing rate of c...